Temple for spectacles.



PATENTED JUNE 23, 1903. I

snuenfoz- GH'O'ZHGAJ C A ZBISER TEMPLE FOR SPEOTACLES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB]. 1902.

N0 MODEL Eta-731,830.

. PATENT Patented June 23, 1903.

OFFICE.

.CHARLES.A.-ZEISER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY BORSCH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TEM FLLE Fos SPECTAC LES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 731,830, dated June 23, 1903. Application filed February 7, 1902. Serial No. 93,022. (No model.)

To all, whom it may concern:

1 Be it known that I, CHARLES A. ZEISER, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, in-the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Temples for Spectacles,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in temples for spectacles, and more particularly to that class of temples known as hooked temples; and the object of the invention is to provide a shield therefor which will be of the cheapest construction and yet be unlikely to cause any irritation of the tender skin of the ear.

It is well known that the most objectionable V feature of spectacles is the irritation of the sensitive skin of the ear caused by the hooked temples, and various inventors have attempted to overcome this difficulty in many ways, examples of which may be mentioned in which a coiled spring is placed over the hook of the temple or a cork or rubber tubing between the metal and the ear. The tubes are of course liable to displacement and are somewhat unsightly in appearance. To overcome these efiects and at the same time produce a shield which will be extremely simple and cheap, I form or connect to the hook- 0f the temple a metallic shield which for all practical purposes becomes a portion of the hook and cannot in any way become displaced therefrom.

My invention therefore consists in the pe-' culiar construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter more particularly described and then definitely set forth by the claims at the end hereof.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a hooked temple with myimprovement thereon. Fig. 2 is a section on the line w w of Fig. l. a cross-section on the line 3 yet Fig. 2. Fig. Fig. 5 isa top plan view of the same.

Referring now to the details of the drawings by numerals, l indicatesa' hooked temple, which may be of any of the usual forms, provided withthe ordinaryhinge-eye 2, by which it is connected with the frame of the spectacles orwith the lens-mount. On the Fig. 3 is hooked end of this temple I secure, by soldering or any other desired way, a metallic shield 3, which is of the peculiar shape shown in Fig. 3 and which affords a wide bearing where the hook contacts with the skin of the ear, and thus prevents its irritation. In some cases instead of forming this shield separate and securing it by solder or otherwise I may form it into one integrali piece, as shown in Fig. 4.

It is believed that my invention is so simple as to need no further description and that its advantages are manifest from an inspection of the drawings.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to provide a hooked temple with a shield, as quite a number of other inventors have attempted to provide a suitable'shield to prevent irritation of the ear. I therefore do not attempt to claim such shields broadly. I believe I am the first, however, .to provide a hooked temple with a shield which for all practical purposes is substantially integral with the hook of the temple and is immovable with respect thereto.

What I claim as new is- 1. As a new article of manufacture,a hooked temple having a hinge-eye at one end thereof and a hooked portion at the other end, said hooked portion comprising a shield or guard formed integral or immovable with the temple proper and of larger cross-section whereby that portion contacting with the ear is flatter and therefore not likely to out the skin, substantially as described.

2. As a new article of manufacture,a hooked temple having a hinge-eye at one end thereof and a hooked temple at the other end; said hooked portion being formed integral with the temple proper and being rolled on a curvature of'considerably larger cross-section whereby it is flatter oniits under side and acts as a shield orguard to-prevent cutting of the skin, substantially as described.

Signed by me at Chicago, day of February, 1902.

CHARLES A.ZEISER.

Illinois, this 36.

Witnesses:

PERCY Z. MCDONALD,

RUDO PH RIsER. 

